Applications not showing up in System Profiler?

Anyone know why? All it says is "no information found" and hitting "refresh" makes no difference.
Could it be somehow it uses spotlight to find the applications?
It shows up the same blank page whether I boot into 64 or 32 bit.
Thanks!

Applications still not showing up. I also tried a safe boot; no go. The safe boot did solve another issue I was having; my security panel in system preferences would not open. After it did in safe boot, it opens in my main administrator account.
But no go on the applications in sys profiler. However, I did install the same 10.6.5 on another internal drive with all updates, and THAT boot WILL show me all my applications, including all the ones on two parallels windows versions (XP and 7) and my bootcamp windows drive, so if I need a list, I'll do that.
I'm guessing probably a symbolic link to the applications folder is amiss or possibly system profiler preferences.
But don't know how to futz with those.
Thanks.
P.S. OK, I do know how to futz with the sysprofiler plist. Not the problem. Did the usual... dragged it to the trash, opened up system profiler, it created a new plist, STILL no applications showing up.
I haven't moved my applications nor anything in my home folder nor changed my name or anything. Just really strange.

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